Perfect car for college, it has a built in antitheft manual transmission!

I have the 2011 Colorado with the 5-cylinder engine. It's been my daily driver for 12+ years and I love it. I coat the frame each year with NH Oil Undercoating to protect it from road-salt and rust. Truck looks and runs like new.

$2000 for anything inspected is good these days. For a manual 4WD truck that's amazing. This is the kind of truck I like. Simple, stick shift, and cheap hahaha. Only thing that would make it cooler to me is the 5 cylinder. Good buy! Doesn't sound bad for a 4 banger either. Maybe the long exhaust helps.

I like those 2.9L engines, it was one of the first assembly lines I worked at GM. We built the 2.9 and the 3.7 on the same line since the 3.7 just adds a cylinder.

this truck is my childhood! my grandpa has one but it has sat for like 2 years. we are working on it now

Love my 06 3.5 crew 2wd. 290k miles, no issues with the powertrain or anything else for that matter.

Careful with loads with the Colorado. I have a 2007 Isuzu i290 I bought new (same exact truck) that now has 145,000 miles. I use it for inter-city delivery of bulk newspaper. I’ve done 2 clutches in it so far. The engine is great, though, and gets great mileage for commercial use.

I always liked those GMT355 trucks, specially those facelifted 2009-2012 models with more amenities, safety equipment, fancier wheels and upgraded engines. A few years ago I almost got a 2007 Canyon Z71 CC with 55K miles. That was the first MY of the 2.9 and the 3.7 like the truck I drove. It felt torquey and liked the 4WD and locking diff very much but ended up walking away because it had a rebuilt title and after looking at the Carfax I found it had rolled on its right side. Nothing wrong with the rebuilt title as I've owned a handful of vehicles that way but I wouldn't feel safe on something with a potential frame damage. PS. Those 4 cyl manual 4x4 Colorados are thin on ice in California. Most I see are 2WD reg cab work trucks so I'd say it was a nice score

Bought a 2019 Colorado 2WD with 4 cyl. and 6 speed stick. Love the Truck. 23 MPG around town. 37 highway. Just turned 25K miles, Change the oil every 4,000 miles. Hoping to still have the truck in 2039 !!

Only 500 miles in 2 and a half weeks? I have drive about 400 a week. Interior is definitely in good shape for such high miles and over 20 mpg in a truck is really good. I always had a soft spot for Colorados/Canyons (I’m not a GM Guy). What a steal! It’s been awhile since I’ve commented on one your vids. I’m an OG Sub, been here since 2019!

I bought a 2008 Colorado 3.7L LT for $2000.00. It has 142000 miles and had a rusted frame, needed new sway bars links, fuel pump assembly, front shocks, spark plugs, thermostat and rear drum brake pads. Fixed it all and now runs like a champ and worth all the work. And it even gets 20mpg combined. For the check engine light, check where the fuel pump assembly is connected on top of the fuel tank. Mine was completely rusted out on top.

You have a knack for buying good vehicles at good prices. May the Colorado serve you well.

Wow I spent $3000 on a Chevy Colorado 4 door 4x4 no rust at All barely driven and has the 5cyl engine and it is an amazing truck for the price it can go just about anywhere and gas mileage isn't bad at all I did take out the plastic piece that takes away around 50 percent or more in air intake and it runs amazing there good trucks it reminds me of a mini Dodge ram

I'm defiantly not a Chevy (or GM for that matter) fan but I did purchase an '05 Chevy Colorado Z71 with the five-cylinder engine back in 2019 as a beater hunting and fishing truck shortly after we moved back home to South Carolina. I won't tell you what my average MPG is with the Colorado as I've been called five kinds of a liar when I mentioned it on other folks' videos here on KZfaq. Let us just say I thought the gas gauge was broken until I used two different apps to prove to my satisfaction that the gauge was indeed working properly. I keep the oil changed; tires properly inflated and rotated, and don't drive it like I stole the damn thing. Is it perfect? Not even close. I would probably have to shell out a couple of thousand dollars, if not more, to fix all the things that need fixing, that from your video work nicely on your pickup. My truck has a few thousand more miles on it than yours does, but it continues to serve me well for what I need it to do as a "beater" daily driver here in our rather rural area.

Damn dude, you always find really good deals!!! Who cares if it’s a four banger. Until we get some reasonable gas prices back, you have a good dependable truck. I wouldn’t waste your time putting a tie hitch on it. I’m sure you get the work done on big red in a timely manner. You’ll be back towing with it soon enough finding another good deal!!! 👍

Just cut that rust out and slap some fender flares and put bigger/wider tires on the Duramax. Would look sweet. Nice find on the Colorado. Looking forward to the comparison

I did not know the Colorado came in a 4 banger. I had a '94 S-10 with a 5 speed manual and I miss it. In 2017, I purchased my father in law's '07 CRV wth 40,000 on it. It was garage kept. I did not realize how much having an automatic would bore the snot out of me. Great video :)

Check the frame where the front shackle for the leaf spring is welded. The gas tank hides some rust there. Mine had a large hole there when I got it

Great purchase pal. She’ll treat you right. Had an 08 Colorado with the 3.7 and didn’t have a single issue with it through 180,000 miles before it got totaled. Severely underrated trucks

I had a 08 Colorado with the 5cyl as a company truck. I flogged that thing for way over 100k miles. It was absolutely bomb proof.

Looking forward to more repair videos on big red

i definitely want one of these as a first truck next year when it’s my turn

This is a nice truck, but I distinctly remember you having one of these before and the hell that it put you through. I hope you won't have a repeat with this purchase. 👍🏿

You usually come up with great deals but rarely a vehicle with no fault codes, no issues, no problems that need to be repaired. Enjoy it!

I miss my 2011 z71 4x4 Colorado with the 5.3 liter. Great truck but I averaged 10 mpg combined and the suspension couldn’t handle towing. Nice buy!

I drive one of these every day and it's a fun little truck, I've got very few complaints about my Colorado

Make your own rust treatment and spray your personal driving vehicles undersides so rust doesn't get any worse for you. Part bar and chain oil, part transmission fluid, part dawn dish soap. Then dusty roads are your friend to lock in the coating you just sprayed under the rig

4:39. A part of me expected you to full-send it off the trailer to "test the suspension" haha! Anyways, AWESOME find for only 2 grand! Vermonters must have some of the nicest and coolest sellers or you're a real smooth talker lol I must've missed the memo on you selling your 1997 S10 manual you bought a couple of years ago! Must've fetched a pretty penny over there!

It's fantastic value. In the UK it would have been £1647 the equivalent to your $2000 , and I seriously doubt I'd find one for that price here. Well done buddy 👍

Fill the truck up until the nozzle clicks. No more cel😊 Drive for about 100 miles

perfect purchase, I would have taken that too, thanks for sharing!

I inherited my dad’s ‘05 canyon. Only has 80,000 miles on the 5 cylinder and it runs great. Most fixes I’ve had to do have been easy and I like working on it. Just gotta fix a 4x4 transfer case swift control switch, and the evap issue

That's MUCH quieter than I expected. Nice truck.

Paint the flat bed and wheels on the dually black please it will upgrade the look!

Good deal. I had a 2011 Chevy Colorado had it for almost 10 years. When i Traded it in little over a year ago for a 21. My 11 still had orignal brakes rotors and drums from the factory lol

Great catch! Easy to work on and adequate around town power with the manual. 5.3 engine swap could give the Chevy a chance at some dragstrip trophies.

i bought a 106k mile 1994 ford f-150 4x4 regular cab SB 5.0 5 speed for $3k like 6 months ago and i love it. it needs a little cosmetic work but thats fine. it was hit on the drivers door and they replced it with a white door so i rattle canned it and called it a day. they hammered out the dents and it doesn’t look that bad especially now that i painted the door so its all one color. I also get 19mpg in it too so can’t complain about that!

The Colorado reminds me so much of the old days of your channel

I have a 08 4 cil 160 mil been using for 2 years and iam surprised people say they suck...hope it can make it all next year......

I am so jealous! I have been looking for a manual 05-09 Canyon with extended cab and man its hard to find!!

My 06 Colorado 4-Cylinder only gets avg. 17MPG. Best I got was like 22 highway and 18 city, but for a 4 cylinder I thought 17 was quite bad. I thought maybe I was hard on it driving (I’m an amateur race driver and mechanic so I drive smoothly, yet quickly on the pedals like I’m running late all the time) and getting mad mileage that way, but in any other car I drive I can get traditionally good gas mileage, so I know that my driving style probably isn’t hurting that efficiency enough to cause it to be that bad. Especially since I only drive to work and home on a 45mph road. Hopefully you have better luck.

I got a 05 gmc canyon with the inline 5 for 800 and it runs great , only catch is the frames starting to go but good enough to get me through 2 years

Had an 06 Colorado manual and it was a great little truck. That aisin transmission is literally bulletproof but beware of the valve seats. The valve seats had a tendency to take a shit in the 4 and 5 cylinder engines gm put in those trucks

I just start to watching you in Poland. Great Channel. I like junks and all this stuffs . I have Buick park avenue and Ford crown victoria. Greetings from Poland dude!

2k for a pickup is a fantastic deal in this current market where I live 2k will get you a pickup truck with a destroyed engine/destroyed transmission auto and manual minimum for a functional truck is like 3000-3500 and for anything automatic and above 2005 is like 5k+ lol

I still think of your yard pissing incident every time I watch your videos.

This is one of those channels that you click 👍even before you see it. 🚙 🥇

I have a 2005 Colorado. Not particularly well built, but solid drivetrain. I also have the I4 and agree it is super gutless. I had the same idea as you when I got it, hoping for good mileage, but it's not really that great. I get about 19 city and 21 highway.

watch the frame on that. I had an 04 2wd MT and the frame snapped and cracked when I put it in a ditch one winter. drove it home. and scrapped it.

Awesome find brother!!!! Right there with you Chevrolet and manual! My last pick was month ago. Gov K2500 burban.

Wow that's a killer deal for a 4X4 Colorado. I quite enjoy those trucks it will be a fun daily driver for you.

the 2000-2012 colorados are so slept on. mine's a tank.

Excellent buy on the Colorado, Great price too. You definitely will be able to make money on it down the road. Not really that much wrong with it. Runs good and I could tell , you enjoyed driving it.🙂 Take care and always stay safe 🙏

Looks like someone took some care with it, drove it mostly highway miles. I like that a young person like you wants to drive stick. Looks like the work won't be too costly, rust is minimal (for something up there) and gives you a decent day to day vehicle.

I have an 08' like that. Same thing, four cylinder, 4WD, 5 speed. Mine only has 113,000 miles and the frame has rusted through. Plan on fixing it and keep on driving it.

Purchase: Great video. I am still hoping/waiting to see you in action where you step by step show the purchase. I want to see action and events where you inspect the title, inspect VIN, verify seller information, verify release of title, show exchange of title, show exchange of money. Lastly, going to the DMV and complete paperwork.

I love all your videos…..it seems like you have a really good life!

I’m also not a ford guy but recently my wife was run off the highway and flipped her 1999 c1500 with the 5.7 dislocated her shoulder she’s alright but the truck is totaled I couldn’t find another clean one like hers that was reasonably priced so I bought a 2004 f150 crew cab short bed 2wd with the 4.6 2v v8 I got the truck for 3k and it only has 103k miles on it so far truck has been running great we took it out of town a few times fords aren’t horrible trucks but it definitely doesn’t feel as well built as any of my GM trucks if I’m being honest.

That's a pretty nice deal honestly. I'm also in Vermont up in Orleans county and I'd be really happy getting a truck like that for $2000. Sure it looks a little bunged up but I think people would still be pretty envious when you tell them about it's decent gas milage. I drive a ranger with the 4.0 and it's not great on gas. Basically it gets the power of a truck with an engine half the size, and the fuel economy of an engine twice the size. But it's been reliable so far so I shouldn't complain.

I'd love to get a Chevy Colorado for 2k

Same color/body as my 08. My broke parts - screws fell out of driver window mount, air pump, tail gate handle, ignoring an evap code presently. Automatic -18 mpg hightway on real gas. Paid 10K four years ago. 78K miles then.

RV: I'll be honest. I follow A LOT of the greats ( Scotty, Hoovie, The Wizard etc.) but I have to say I think your content may be my favorite. Those guys are awesome too but I really enjoy your " everyday " stuff that most people can relate to. No idea why you don't have a million followers or so.

Yeah that’s nice I have a 2005 with 230000 miles I love it don’t get me wrong but mine is a nocker but it’s my first truck and iv been mean to it not going to lie again and I couldn’t walk away from the new truck if it was black and 4 door with only about 20 or 30 thousand miles I couldn’t turn it down depending on what your doing in life but I know mine or my next is going to be a highway trooper but they are tough as hell and I think I’m going to always stick with this as my drive around town truck. Because it’s almost like a mini Cadillac. But she’s Hott just saying..

Reminds me of my 97 S10 zr2 5 speed always wined in low gears it was a great truck 20 mpg all day on 33s

I didn’t know these came in manual…I would have looked around more. But I bought a 2005 Colorado Z71 back in 2014 and I love it. It’s got 178k miles on it I don’t think I’ll ever get rid of it…even when I’m eyeing the new generation Colorado/ Canyons that are coming out which look super sharp 👀

Hey Beetle! Best part of your videos man, the vehicles are pretty good too! 😅😂

That's a nice little truck you picked up!

Dang you can take that beast to the Tunbridge fair.

I’ve been driving the 2wd cousin to this truck for a year now. Mine only has 93k on it. I definitely have to down shift from 5th quite often. Very weak on the top end.

Thats awesome another chevy!! Im buying a new daily later today as well, 99 Silverado 1500 z71 extended cab

Great buy so jealous as here in Australia mainly it diesel is only, early models had 3.6lt V6 petrol but prices are still high despite amount of kms. Like space cab version, I would rip back seats out n put in slide out toolbox n cool box.

I’ve been thinking about picking up one of these models myself for a new daily

Nice truck, I'd love to see that Tacoma. My math teacher in middle school had a white Pre Runner I believe it was.

I am a Ford guy, but I still really enjoy your content lol

You have Beetle cameos but no truck ride with her? Whatttt??? I think she would approve of the ride and condition as the truck "sits and stays" right now in its current condition.

If you dont like the steering wheel... maybe swap it with one from a same year trail blazer or if thats too big .. an impala?🤔 would make good content too

Honestly how do you legally buy so many cars so easily? In PA buying a car is like a 3 day ordeal. Paying for the car, finding a notary place, making sure the notary place is open, getting new plates for it, switching the insurance, it's not a simple process.

Nice truck! I always liked the size of the Colorado/Canyon with the extended cab.

I have a 09 Chevrolet Colorado Extended Cab 4WD with the 3.7L

Broken leaf spring at 8:29 Otherwise looks good!

You did good nice truck and the stick is definitely a plus

Hope you don’t have to do brakes on it, for whatever reason the engineers decided when you do a brake job you have to take the wheel bearing with it. Can be a pain with the rust

sounds like a pretty strong runner. nice.

Look out for the AC blower fan resister as mine on my 08 goes out once a year though it’s a cheap fix, also I’m ne thing you might want to do is reattach the ground strap located inter the air filter box cause that’s one of the issues with the Fan resistor going out. Just grind the paint off and bolt the strap back down and hit it with some clear coat and you’re good. Also even though the 2.9 has two balancing shafts located BEHIND the stupid engine, only way to get to it is pull the tranny.

Would've bought a ranger tbh, although tbf here in Nova Scotia everything that is worth buying used is ford or Honda lol.

change the oil often, and engines will run along time, (the blood of your vehichle).

So long Canyonero, hello Thundecougerfalconbird. Sorry, but these truck names are ridiculous. Good luck with the purchase. I think that's a hell of a good deal.

1st. Wahoo love this channel!

This is the perfect truck, not a ton of bells and whistles, so it low cost.

Great buy hope you get good service out of it

Did you sell the 2015 Green Silverado you took to Alaska? That was a beautiful truck.

Good 👍 Deal 👍 Liked vid

damn thats a steal! i miss my 4 banger canyon especially with the way gas prices are now lol

Great deal, I loved my Canyon... Had the 5 cyl one... Was an auto loaded .... But great truck

It looks nice, but it won't work for long trips in zombie mode, because the cruise control will be turning off, so you can downshift for each hill.

That frame looks like it was undecorated with rubberized undercoat or bed liner. Both will make the frame rot quicker. Any little knick in the stuff and water will sit right on the frame.

You should throw a dually bed on that duramax it would look so nice

That is a great price. That said, I had a 2011 bought new and it was nothing but a steaming pile of poop over my time of ownership. Mine was a base model where all it had option wise was A/C, auto trans, CD player, bluetooth. The rest was manual (locks and windows). Basically the typical white work truck. It had a stupid GM engineering blunder like all GM vehicles have. In my case it had water bottle holder in the door that when you had a water bottle in it, you could not roll the windows up or down as the top of the water bottle blocked the crank (and these were the small water bottles you get in 24 packs). The last 2 years i owned it, the battery would mysteriously die if left sitting for 3 days. I replaced the battery with a brand new one as i thought the battery was bad only to have the new battery do the same thing 6 months later. Every time I did a parasitic draw test, the truck had no huge power draws and the draw that it had was normal for what the memory and computers and ONSTAR drew during the time the truck was off. I suspect a module stayed awake intermittently but I could not find it so I just kept the battery cable off when I left it parked for more then a day. I got tired of screwing with it so i dumped it and bought a new Elantra (which has giving me no trouble in the 4 years i have owned it). It was a shame as the truck only had about 107,094 miles on it when I traded it in and drove well with no rust on the body or under it (a shock being that it was a Chevy and I live in a place that covers the roads with rock salt Because you have the onstar mirror, you can switch the manual mirror out for a auto-dimming mirror with compass easy. it is plug and play with no wiring cutting. I did that with mine

I'd like to find a z71 ex cab in good shape to mod and turn into a badass off-road and overland rig.

I'm shocked that truck wasn't 6K or more with the way car prices are rn. 2K is an excellent deal for that car 😀